Wibbly-Wobbly Ramblings

deinstitutionalization should be giving people housing, getting people’s basic needs of food, clothes, etc met, helping people achieve their personal goals, like education or making friends and thus helping people gain access to the wider community, it shouldn’t just ‘include’ c/s/x led resources and groups and services but be driven by them and be driven generally by a vision of “What is the vision that consumers/survivors/ex-patients have?” not just including them at the end of a long list of “stakeholders” as a minor group of people we ‘have to’ pretend to listen to and engage with

what deinstitutionalization ends up being in practice is “let’s close some psychiatric institutions with no plans for housing or other community services and supports for people leaving these institutions, and let’s act completely surprised when the people we gave zero support aren’t magically cured of the problems they developed in part due to the effects of years and years of institutionalization, and let’s suddenly demand that we “”””humanely””””” bring the institutions back, to “help” them”

Imo the question of who “belongs” at pride is really not useful, because at this point pride is a festival that’s very distant from its roots. Pride is a party, and parties are good, but actual radical organizing is what’s taking place the other 364 days of the year. In terms of who “belongs” there, that’s a matter of who actually shows up and who’s willing to put the work in.

I’d like to see less people spending their time arguing about if gay men are allowed to wear leather to what is essentially a gay street party and more people talking about how to get involved w the community in genuinely meaningful ways outside of pride. If what you’re concerned about is the co-opting of a movement you’re a part of, the best way to counteract that is to actually participate in that movement. Be a part of the on-the-ground stuff that matters, organize action within your local lgbt community to resist gentrification and police violence, volunteer your time at shelters and harm reduction clinics, advocate for easy access to HIV drugs and education, schedule gay readings groups for radical literature, fuck, start a queercore band, something.

What happens on the internet is entirely removed from the material reality of the real world, and it’s out there in the real world that people like us are dying on the street. If you’re someone with strong opinions about what the “community” should look like, actually engage with that community and work towards the goals you’re describing rather than just writing essays on tumblr and hoping other people will do the dirty work for you. They won’t.

In the political climate we’re in, my patience for petty squabbling is really limited. We have big and immediate priorities, people are getting murdered by fascists and dying because they can’t afford food.

Not to be blunt, but getting into arguments about the nuances of terminology on tumblr is a good way to neutralize your feelings of anger or political discontent while actually contributing nothing. It feels good, and it’s safe and doesn’t challenge you or put you outside your comfort zone, but it doesn’t help the people who are most vulnerable in our community.

We need to collectively get over our aversion to actual IRL involvement with political movements because this really isn’t the time for banal in-fighting, it’s the time for genuinely building solidarity and a real, material movement that people can rely on.

【悲報】アニ豚さん、とんでもないプラモデルを完成させてしまう

Chat Noir’s Suit breakdown

Watch: The trailer for ‘Hidden Figures’ is here — and it looks incredible.

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i am really sick of this “if you don’t disclose all these private things about you to every stranger on the internet, you must be cis, white, straight, able-bodied, and mentally healthy” mentality that tumblr has.

it’s like… despite what so many of us are working to subvert (sometimes the same people making assumptions, absurdly enough), you still have this mental image of that as the default state of humanity. and unless we state that we deviate from this false “norm”, it’s assumed that we fall under it.

and it’s making it so that people are forced into oversharing and oversharing becomes normal. you don’t have any right to know these things unless i really, truly am comfortable with/want to share them. not everyone is comfortable with disclosing the private details of their lives, and you seeing that desire for privacy, making assumptions, and attacking them is fucked up.

you wouldn’t expect someone you met at school to tell you all these things. you wouldn’t expect your sister’s boyfriend to tell you all these things. you don’t have a right to that knowledge, and being on the internet doesn’t change it.

Oxford English Dictionary Adds 15 new Transgender and Nonbinary Terms to its Online Dictionary!

Oxford Dictionary has just added a slew of important trans and nonbinary terminology to its online dictionary, OxfordDictionaries.com. The following terms are now officially defined in US English:

Agender, Bi-gender, Cisgender, Cissexism, FTM, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Gender-fluid, Genderqueer, Misgender, MTF, Mx, Nonbinary, Transman, Transperson, Transphobia, and Transwoman!

Life Outside The Binary does not necessarily endorse the particular definitions nor the wording therein. Many of these definitions may be overly simplistic or use outdated terminology. It is certainly more important to understand each individual’s understanding and relationship to a given term, and to understand their history and social context, rather than to differ to a broad general definition. There are also many other important words (such as transmisogyny, binarism and other identities such as neutrois and androgyne) that definitely deserve inclusion in dictionaries.

However, this is still a huge win for transgender and non-binary people! Especially words such as “cissexism,” “transphobia,” and “misgender,” (as well as several common transgender identities) being defined in a reputable online language resource may represent a huge step toward developing common understanding and acceptance of trans and nonbinary people and issues.

-Lane

now people can stop saying “those aren’t real words”

*snoopy dance*

Totally Awesome Hulk will be the first time in history that Marvel will have a Korean-American lead character written and drawn by a Korean-American creative team.

Mami, papi, we did it! After 22 long years of picking strawberries, nurturing the fresas, day after day, being kissed by the sun, I am finally your fruition today. I am the fresa you’ve worked so hard to preserve, to love, to nurture. Today, i am ready to be the sweetest thing you ever did grow. This degree is for the immigrant families that have crossed borders and who have thrived. mami, papi, this degree is ours, the strawberries can no longer claim you as their own.

This is super cute! Gracias por ser una enorme inspirasion 💗💗💗

Did we just get waved at by fat?